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M&S profits soar by 35% [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Profits for Marks & Spencer soared by 35% last year to £751m, as Stuart Rose's spectacular womenswear-led revival continues
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Stamp duty rakes in £1bn a month [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Gordon Brown is raking in £1bn a month in stamp duty, and £250m in inheritance tax, according to the latest figures
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Market report: Tuesday 12.30 [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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City investors had their prayers answered today with share prices enjoying a better time, led higher by battered mining companies
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Clampdown on elderly drivers [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Elderly drivers should face tougher restrictions to stem the number of people aged 70 or older being involved in traffic accidents
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Brewer Young's to merge with rival [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Developers eye £80m site in plan to shift beer production from Wandsworth to Bedford and end a 175-year tradition
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Germans top NYSE bid for Euronext [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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The battle for control of global stock exchanges took a dramatic turn today as Germany's Deutsche Borse topped the NYSE offer for Euronext
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CMC to delay float after market agony [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Financial trading firm CMC Markets is set to postpone its £800m flotation on the LSE in the wake of recent market turmoil
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Improved offer on table for ABP [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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The UK's biggest ports operator has opened its books to a bid consortium after receiving a new takeover proposal
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South-East has biggest sexes pay gap [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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The pay gap between men and women is biggest in the South-East and lowest in Wales, official figures have revealed
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Coldplay and Gorillaz boost EMI [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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With hit albums from Coldplay and Gorillaz, music giant EMI comfortably outstripped its rivals and beat City expectations last year
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GNER takes rail chiefs to court [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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A major train company is to take rail chiefs to court in the continuing row over services on a main London to Scotland route
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Lloyds facing hurricane season [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Lloyd's insurance market is assessing a new warning that the hurricane season starting next month could pound the southern US
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Firms hit by £2.6bn pension bill [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Firms face a £2.6bn bill to boost their employees' pensions, according to a leak of this week's reforms
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Sex toys swell SSL profit to £49m [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Better-than-expected sales of Durex sex toys are giving a lift to the fortunes of condoms-to-sandals maker SSL
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A&L soars on bid talk [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Shares in Alliance & Leicester rose sharply today after French banking giant Credit Agricole confirmed it is considering a bid
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Lotto winner gives away £3.5m [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Great grandfather Bob Bradley, who won £3.5m on the lottery, has given a huge amount to children's charities and spent the rest on family and friends
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Punch to auction Spirit pubs [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Pub operator Punch Taverns today said it will sell 380 of the outlets it bought from Spirit group in December for £2.7bn
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Chrysalis records ad revenue jump [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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The owner of Heart and Galaxy today offered signs of a trading revival after advertising revenues jumped 10% since March
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Cleanaway sale sparks waste sector frenzy [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Unprecedented takeover action in the UK waste disposal market could kick off with a £600m offer for the Cleanaway bin men group
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A to Z of the Sunday newspapers [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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This is Money reads the Sunday papers so you don't have to. Here is this week's round-up of the bigger stories from the financial pages
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Second time-buyers stay put [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Rising house prices have left people unable to climb off the first rung of the property ladder - compounding problems for first-time buyers
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Watchdog's Thames Water fury [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Thames Water is set to miss key targets for reducing its massive leakage problem for the third successive year, Financial Mail can reveal
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This is the one show you should switch off [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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The Financial Mail's ace investigator tells TV shoppers to beware a shambles of a channel
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Labour spin on pensions can't mask its follies [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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Until proper compensation is paid to the victims of failed pension schemes, talk by Labour of a new dawn for pensions is highly misleading
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Who will pick up the tab if Equitas fades? [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
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You thought all of the rich and famous who risked their fortunes in the burlesque of the Lloyd's of London insurance market were dead and buried?
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